ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,801, issued on July 28, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for determining and using an intensity index for electrical stimulation" was invented by Tianhe Zhang (Studio City, Calif.) and Changfang Zhu (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an intensity index for electrical stimulation includes receiving stimulation information; determining a stimulation field from the stimulation information; determining at least one stimulation field function using the stimulation field; and analyzing the determined at least one stimulation field functio...